How do fluid dynamics work?

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How would I go about implementing fluid dynamics in a game, such as can be seen in this video?

A search term that may be useful to you is "smoothed particle hydrodynamics". Update: here is a very good introduction to the field. — DaleyPaley, Apr 16 '13 at 05:36

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 12 '11 at 03:47

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It looks like the game is just using a fairly simple particle fluid simulation. Basically, the "water" consists of little balls that move according to Newtonian mechanics, fall under gravity and repel each other over short distances. The blobs of water are then drawn around the particles using something like metaballs to smooth the surface.

answered Nov 12 '11 at 03:47

Ilmari Karonen

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Actually a good, clean answer to an otherwise overly-broad question – bobobobo Jan 28 '12 at 14:57

Richard Fabian · Answer 2 · 2012-01-30T12:10:20.343

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Looks very similar to the water in PixelJunk shooter. There is a PDF on how the water was done:

http://www.maisonikkoku.com/yonder/SIGGRAPH2011/SlidesForADBAD.pdf ^^link has gone dead... you can get the cached version from google search, but if you're very very lazy, then you may view this copy if you need to: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/203979/SlidesForADBAD.pdf

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answered Nov 12 '11 at 16:52

Richard Fabian

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The link goes to a dead-end. – Todd Lehman Jan 29 '12 at 14:56

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 21 '12 at 09:20

Try to read great serious of articles from Intel about fluid simulation for video games http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/fluid-simulation-for-video-games-part-1/

And also try this, fluid simulation in Alice game http://developer.nvidia.com/content/fluid-simulation-alice-madness-returns

How do fluid dynamics work?

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